Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵
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Richard Medhurst📚️🇯🇵
@richardmedh.bsky.social
Brit in Yokohama, translator at https://www.nippon.com/en/
Translator of The Essential Akutagawa (Sep 2025)
Interested in Japanese language, literature, and history.
It's a great show, but the songs are always changing, so this one is not on at the moment. Quite often there are some good language-related ones though. (Essential viewing for my son, so I also watch regularly).
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
There's a song on morning TV with lots of idioms like this. NHK, so no official version of the actual song online though.
www.web.nhk/tv/an/e0655/...
水曜日 | Eテレ0655
【NHK】おはようソング「糠に釘ソング」歌:阿佐ヶ谷姉妹
www.web.nhk
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Did you find it?
November 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I suppose "cume" is a slight improvement on that!
November 18, 2025 at 12:31 AM
I'm afraid so.
November 11, 2025 at 7:06 AM
More shocking than konbu, certainly.
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Well, indeed!
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Strange feeling to see this in the article:
"The first Japan Population Conference in 1974 adopted a declaration stating that effective measures are needed to keep population increase under control."
November 10, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I edited out a lot of bed-related phrases while doing my Akutagawa translations...
November 9, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I've had that experience too, and even memorably a phantom convenience store on one occasion.
November 7, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Sorry, I don't think I'd be able to commit, but hope it's fun if you manage to put something together.
November 6, 2025 at 6:58 AM
There's Sui-chan on children's TV every day - I guess this might be an influence.
November 6, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I hope he doesn't mind if I mention @niten.bsky.social who springs to mind
November 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM